Improvement in saddle-clips for carriages



F. SEWABD.

Improvement in Saddle -Clip for Carriages.

Nov. 12?}275. PatentedMay 28,1872

AMFIVUIG llfHUGRAPH/C CU N. I IUSBGRNES PROCESS) UNITED STATES PATENTGFrron IMPROVEMENT IN SADDLE-CLIPS FOR CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,275, dated May 28,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK SEWARD, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inSaddle-Clips for Carriages; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawing constitutes a part of thisspecification, and repre-\ sents, in-

Figure 1, a plan or top view; an edge view.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of thesaddle-plate for carandin Fig. 2,

.riagesthat is to say, the plate which lies upon the spring, and overwhich the clips are placed to secure the spring to theaxle. Variousdevices have been resorted to in forging this plate in order to preventthe displacement of the clips, all of which devices have been by raisingthe upper surface of the plate to form a shoulder or connection with theclip. This makes the plate an expensive construction, as it mustnecessarily be forged in dies and trim med. By my invention theconstruction is very much simplified, and the holding down over thespring, and plate through the notch a, as seen in Fig, 1, the said notchwill sustain the clip in its place and prevent it being thrown to theright or left.

In making this plate no more time or labor is required than for trimmingthe ordinary plate after it has been forged. Thus I save the expense ofheating and forging, as I am enabled to cut the plate from cold sheetmetal complete and perfect as it comes from the die,

and accomplishing all the objects which are attained by the devices onthe forged plates before referred to.

I claim as my invention- The herein-described saddle-plate as cle ofmanufacture.

Witnesses: FRANK SEWARD.

J H. SHUMWAY, A. J. TIBBITS.

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